Yup and Windows 7 handles it. XP and server2003 are on their way out. (Non supported in a couple of years)
It is now up to the manufacturers to get with it. Stewart At 10:36 AM 3/11/2010, you wrote:
Rev, this is a BIOS issue in older versions of Windows (XP and Server 2003). Also, reams of Windows code expect a 512 byte sector. I am not optimistic about any fixes for this. XP came out around 2000 or 2001, didn't it? Apple escapes partly because they don't have the BIOS issue and partly because they have fixed most versions of OS X. Apple is much less anchored in obsolete (this one is 30-years old, came from floppies) standards than MS. The highest capacity 3.5-inch ff disk drives I see at the moment are at 2 TB. That is already pushing older versions of Windows to the limits. Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- That is not just an MS issue but also a hardware manufacture issue. The largest consumer drives right now are 1.5 TB. If I remember XP will be non supported in a few years. I expect MS will come up with a programming fix for this. XP was released when? I do not think they thought far enough in the future to see the limitations of Disk size that are mentioned. I am Glad that Mac's do not have this, but they also have been releasing more new releases of their OS that Windows have. Also the Intel Mac is how old? Stewart ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
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